The CARTER FAMILY ~COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME~16 TRACKS OF ORIGINAL RECORDINGS

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The CARTER FAMILY ~COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME~16 TRACKS OF ORIGINAL RECORDINGS

SOME NOTES about THE CARTER FAMILY from KING RECORDS:

In 1970, The Carter Family became the first singing group inducted into The Country Music Hall Of Fame. This legendary group can be traced all the way back to a recording session that took place in August of 1927 in as far east in Tennessee as you can get. The state line between Tennessee and Virginia runs down the middle of the street in Bristol, where the session was recorded on the Tennessee side of the street! The original group included A.P. Carter, his wife Sara and sister-in-law Maybelle Carter. From 1936 to 1939 the group was joined by Mother Maybelle Carter's daughters, Anita, June, and Helen. They continued to record until Oct. 14, 1941. After that last session, The Carter Family had recorded over 250 songs since they first began in Bristol. By 1943, the original group went their separate ways, leaving Mother Maybelle and her daughters to proudly carry on The Carter Family name. The royal family of folk and country music was well represented into the second generation by Maybelle and her daughters. In 1950 the group was invited to join the Grand Ole Opry. By 1968, after June Carter had married country legend Johnny Cash, The Carter's appeared as regulars on the Johnny Cash show. The group's vitality made many of their songs bona fide country music standards.